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She nodded a bit and looked down at the boy. She addressed him by name and assured him it was going to be okay, tone serious yet as comforting as she could manage it. Children coming in was always something for extra effort to try. They rushed the boy through another set of doors and Melissa stopped, turning to look at Dimitri, placing a gentle hand on his shoulder. “I know that you want to come in, but for the time being I need you to wait out here. We need a sterile environment to make sure we can clean the burns and get his healing factor to start.” She explained, giving him a firm nod before jotting back between the doors.

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Text @ Scott

Mom: Where are you?

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“Sweetie, we’re here to help you,” Melissa said immediately to the boy as the stretcher was pulled through the doors, kicking the wheels out. She walked along side it as it rushed through another set of doors, observing the small boy. Her heart ached. She hadn’t seen anything like this since the Hale fire. This was bad. They were bad burns. It killed her to see them on someone so young. “Are you his father?” Melissa asked over as they continued along the stretcher, keeping a jog along side it. “What’s your son’s name?”

Everything was a blur, colors rushing past his vision as his son was transported on a stretcher into the hospital. Heat blisters covered his delicate skin, ash turned his hair dark and he looked like he was barely breathing. Dimitri himself was in bad shape, his shoulder ached and burns spread across his skin from the fire. But he was focused on his son, just staring at him with tears in his eyes.

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“Hopefully not. No one but the nurses should get use to walking around this building.” She said with a slight sigh before giving the girl a smile. “Yes, but I techncially have a lunch break right now so some of the interns are taking over for me.”

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“Perfect then.” Melissa nodded a bit. She nodded lighlty at her and lifted her arms behind her, hands removing and starting to redo her ponytail. “Oh yeah, no worries. There’s been a handful of cases like that lately. Some of the pharmacies get a little jumbled sometimes with some doctors transferring or just giving the wrong information.”

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“Just that you need to be careful who you hang out with.” She said simply. It wasn’t harsh, just honest. “Some of the Alphas around here have been starting to cause trouble with other Packs, so its best to be careful.”

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Melissa shrugged a bit, “I liked my job.” She responded simply. She was pretty good, but she wasn’t about to brag about it. “I’m one of the only people who stays through all of the crap that happens.”

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Melissa glanced at the young woman before looking forward, keeping pace with her. “The end of this year makes twenty-three. Wow, I’ve been here a while..” She mumbled the last part to herself, shaking her head a bit.

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Melissa nodded at him slightly, glancing at his eye before looking back at his face generally. “Well, I hate to break it to you, but you’re in the wrong wing.” She said, gesturing for him to follow her. “Most people come into ER reception and assume its for the regular hospital, but its actually on the other side of the building. Let me show you.”

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“Pharmacy is on the other side of the building. Follow me.”

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“Can this be the year that people don’t come into the ER with firework injuries, please? I can handle stomach pumping but if I have to handle anymore idiots who put firecrackers in their pants I’m going to go home.”

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Medical

M: What is their favourite dessert?Melissa is a sucker for some homemade cookies. Nothing beats gooey chocolate chips fresh out of the oven.

E: How are they with children? She’s always been great with children. While she never had any siblings herself, she had plenty of cousins, older and younger and helped take care of her younger cousins and her older cousins children. She was a natural and couldn’t wait for it to be her turn.

D: How they react to being flirted with? Melissa is generally flattered unless she’s in a bad mood. It also depends if its genuine or not because a lot of people tried flirting with her after Scott was found to be a True Alpha so they could attempt their own chance at the same rarity and she learned to deflect those tactics.

I: On a scale of 1 to 10, how much do they love themselves?A solid 7. There’s a lot she wishes she could change about the way things were and how they are now but overall she’s content and can’t really complain.

C: Can they swim well?She can swim fine, she doesn’t do it often, but she could hold her own.

A: What are/were this character’s best subjects in school? Melissa was particularly good at Spanish, but she had a leg up in that department. She liked it because it was easy for her.

L: What is their favourite board game? She loves Battleship. When she and Scott lived in their old apartment after Rafael had left, they played it for hours on end, just a simple, mindless guessing game they could play and have a good time with.

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Spell a character's name in my askbox and I'll tell you my headcanons...

A: What are/were this character’s best subjects in school?

B: Do they have any allergies?

C: Can they swim well?

D: How they react to being flirted with?

E: How are they with children?

F: What’s one thing they’re really bad at?

G: How do they flirt?

H: What is their deadly sin?

I: On a scale of 1 to 10, how much do they love themselves?

J: What’s their sense of humour like?

K: How do you know when you’ve upset them?

L: What is their favourite board game?

M: What is their favourite dessert?

N: What do they usually eat for breakfast?

O: What would it take to break them, inside and out?

P: How do they handle money?

Q: Are they patient?

R: What are their hands like?

S: How stealthy are they?

T: Where are they ticklish?

U: What’s their voice like?

V: What’s the easiest way to annoy them?

W: Can they dance?

X: What’s their most petty little secret?

Y: What is one question they’ve always wanted an answer to?

Z: How do they sleep?

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Melissa growled lowly  and she tugged his shirt back down, moving to his other side and hoisting his arm over her shoulders, pulling on him some so she was holding most of his weight, which seemed almost effortless as she started to walk. “I’ll fix them. Just breathe slowly for me and do what I tell you, okay?”

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“You tell me what they looked like right now because I swear I’m going to hunt them down. Now  let me look at it.”

“N-no, I don’t know who the person who hit me was… but they thought I was my brother.”

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Melissa watched her son from the door frame, leaning up against it and watching him sweat. Some days it was weird to see him like this. Standing tall and grown up in a beautiful home, when she’d raised him in such a mediocre place in comparison and he use to be so small and definitely use to wear more clothes.

When he took noticed in her, she pushed herself up, giving a respectful nod to his trainer before walking over toward Scott. “I’m alright without trying to spar with you. Unfair advantage.” She reminded. Also, sparring wasn’t her cup of tea.  “Just wanted to see what you were up to. I have today off.”

Scott exhaled slowly and wiped the sweat from his forehead. Everything ached, but it was a warm, satisfied sort of feeling. He’d never want to admit how good it felt to let out the aggression that built up inside of him or that he was indulging his alpha instincts. He always used to see that as a sign of failure. Violence and anger were his father’s calling cards, they were the cornerstone of alpha society and the source of all their problems. He was supposed to be different and learning just how similar he really was never sat well with him.

But this was directed, fighting with a trainer as a work out to relieve tension and work out all those feelings in a place that was safe and no one would get hurt. Maybe he was more of an alpha than he wanted to be, but at least he was still doing all of this on his own terms and that was important.

He took a swallow from his water bottle and waved. “Hey! What’s up? I just finished unless you wanna go a round with me too?”

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“Oh, he did forget how good he had it.” She chuckled lightly, prepping the IV, “This is going to pinch a little,” She said before carefully inserting the needle into his vein. She made it as painless and skillful as possible, gently securing the  tube down with some surgical tape to keep it in place. “But Scott and I are lucky.  We were a lot better off without him and I’m pretty sure he would’ve driven Scott insane, so good riddance.” She smiled a bit to assure him that it was, in fact, a good thing. Despite those rough years after Rafael left, they enjoyed themselves and were a lot happier wthout him and that was all that mattered to her.